Building strong, respectful relationships with your contractors is key.

Then after establishing a company and establishing actual cashflow and not just having it on paper, you could then try and find a partner who will come in and purchase the portfolio from you and your partners, you can pay off your partners and then start new with this single partner and move forward through the rest of the plan.

what your looking for with the data is to establish a reason to make certain moves.

Quote from @Damein White: So my property is at the edge of a city limits  3 house to the right starts a new city and my appraiser said i can only use comps in my city limits i can’t go out of my city limits has anyone else experience this or have information on if that is correct  Yes or they could potentially establish a value that would determine the difference in the cities but that's really difficult to compute.

RELATIONSHIP - With a private loan, you're able to establish and develop a relationship with the actual lender.

If Michael wants to keep the house, he buys out Jacob based on Jacob's cash contribution to the purchase plus/minus some percentage of the appreciation/depreciation since purchase (% could be based on their respective cash contributions to the purchase).

I'm not an Attorney but you could set up an LLC (Parent Company) that is owned 50/50 by each of your own respective LLCs (You own 100%).

However, PS is more established and we are focusing on 4/2 SFH (no land lease and under city caps). 

I HOPE you understand what I am saying :) Thanks for your directness—I definitely respect your viewpointI’m fully committed to advancing in real estate, and I understand that meaningful networking is about mutual value.

Like many (most) businesses it requires an investment of capital; money expenditure for ongoing marketing; management of operating, marketing and professional personnel; keeping accounting records and filing tax returns; established sales practices; constant monitoring of goals, budgets, and productivity; establishment and implementation of operational systems; and providing customer service.